Jake Gear and Hailey Whitters.Photo: Claire Schaper
Country singerHailey Whittershas tied the knot!
The “Everything She Ain’t” singer married music publishing executive Jake Gear in Iowa on Oct. 1 after more than 10 years together.
“said yes to forever in a field somewhere,” shewrote on Instagramalongside a series of photos from her big day.
Whitters, 33, tells PEOPLE that she said “I do” at a “quaint country church” in her hometown of Shueyville and followed the ceremony with a reception at her father’s farm.
Hailey Whitters.Claire Schaper
Gear, who has produced music for Whitters and others, celebrated the special day with anInstagram postof his own, which he captioned, “Best day of my life.”
In photos from their wedding, Whitters posed in front of cornstalks, and held hands with her new husband while wearing a cowboy hat. In one snap, the couple rode off into the sunset on a four-wheeler, and also posed in front of a tractor.
Hailey Whitters and Jake Gear.Claire Schaper
The pair were engaged in July 2020 in an Iowa cornfield, and celebrated their 10-year anniversary in May.
Though they were engaged mid-pandemic, Whitterstold PEOPLE in 2021that she and Gear had held off on planning their wedding “because my family is gonna want to get loud and drunk and sweaty and dance — and that just didn’t even sound safe.”
The country star released her third albumRaisedin March, which served as a love letter to her Midwest roots.
“I started writing some of this record all the way back in 2019,” shetold PEOPLE at the time. “I started thinking that it would be a record that would pay tribute to where I grew up and where I came from.Raisedis the record that goes back to see who and what and where kept that girl determined to hang on to her dream.”
source: people.com
